Studio progress/mess images. Working away at various things at the same time, thinking of heading out early to work on a writing assignment due this week and maybe write out more notes for Thesis Report. We will see how this goes.The piece on the far left is for Advanced Painting, which I’m trying to work with the idea of the Cyborg in Donna Harraway’s Cyborg Manifesto. Still have to come up with a composition for the figure. The piece beside it is putting two different images together, in this pieces’s case it’s a cover of a (I hate the term but,) Shemale pron magazine and a shot from some straight Porn review magazine. Inset duck tape and Voila.I really adore the duck tape and what it refers to. Still playing with how I can add it to works or how I can subtract from it to add imagery. Really is open to alot of possibilities for me to work with.Really anxious to go home, I think I have a cold or something from my unit mates on the north side of the apartment. Going to pack up now I guess and work the whole time tomorrow. Elizabeth get’s back from Montreal tonight at 3am, so we will see how awake I can be for class. Have a good night everyone, wish me well.

I’ve been quite busy working away at various works the past while. Playing with Duck tape and juxtaposing different images/bodies into the same work.They remind me of Mondrian, the sectioned portions is something I remember doing back in high school. It was bound for a comeback sometime. As for the duck tape I think I need to look for other colours, perhaps stick to Mondrians pallet. I will bring my camera to take proper pictures, as my web cam does not stand up to it. And I am going to force myself to carry my case of mediums to work with.On another note I think I need to look at Jean Gagnon’s Censorship, since I seem to be playing with that notion. Women are not sensored, but men are. Let’s see how this goes shall we?

After Wednesday and Thursdays critiques I’ve been working aggressively on various works. I hope to get about 10 works done by Halloween, various sizes. It’s a goal, a good one at that. I’m trying to get good-old-rough-copies of assignments that need to be done. If all works out, Monday will be a studio day. Tuesday, I am hopeing to head to the ROM for a few hours (2-3?) to see the Vanity Fair show. It’s free for students to get in so I save 10$ ( I usually go on half price nights, aka friday).

This work I have though is done on Velum with charcoal. I really think I need to make a large version of one like it on the same paper. I am working with the ideas of Donna Haraway and her Cyborg. I quite like the construction of the body. The biology, the mechanics etc.

This other piece is in process, same idea but trying to use the same candy like colours in it. I started to use gel transfers as well, their prity interesting. Going to see how this piece goes.

This watercolor is done actually, but here is it before it was. It’s at the studio, I will get around to documenting it soon. Really nice, I wonder what Catherine Will say about it. I’m off to bed, going to open tomorrow. Good Night world.

I’ve been playing around the last little bit, materials as well as techniques. Here’s some work that has come out of it all. All of which were fueled by my new reference material (Playboy, Curves and Glutes) of women, I do plan to get my hands on transgender imagery (non internet and tasteful, hopefully). I will be visiting both Glad day books and Stag Shop , to decide which is best image wise.

The first two are not for thesis , although I might re work them larger for it possibly. It is an option. Two works are actually on Styrofoam and the black-neon-green-orange one is on black Duck tape. Very interesting effects each surface gives to a work. I quite like the texture of the Styrofoam and duck tape. I’m deciding to possibly use packaging tape over a canvas I prepared for another work, we’ll see how that goes. I’m off to sleep. Good night.

Thought Id go over some past work before running off to put the laundry in the machine AND maybe buying a porn magazine for reference (Seriously…).So this series was done last year in April. Cathy titled the project “Fear” and I really dislike the idea of being pregnant. This is the various stages of the fetus through pregnancy, done in Chinese ink on rice paper. 20 in all , each peice is 9 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches.

The next series was done again with Cathy, this time on childhood memories. When I was trying to learn “Cats Cradle” I continued to fail at it, getting to one point then getting stuck. I just really wanted to learn at the time, even now , sometimes, I will try to get past that point but I always fail. Chinese ink on Reeves paper 10 x 10inches roughly each.

This Diptych came from a sketch of a Tengu (Japanese mythological being). I came up with a story in my head about this captured beast and a young woman falling in love with this creature. Does it tear her to shreds? Does it love her back? Does it know what love is? Does it understand her? Many questions went though my mind of this strange relationship. It reminded me of how my girlfriend and I are seen by others, as she has transitioned and looks gorgeous (I guess people are jealous of me for having her?). Perhaps I understand this woman more than my peers did in my class, no one liked it , except for Cathy if I recall correctly. The second peice next to it, with the creature being absent, shows how maybe she imagined it. Sometimes I hear Elizabeth’s (My girlfriend) voice, but how can I when I am in Toronto and she is in little Bowmanville? So perhapse this woman’s longing for something “abnormal” or “new” made her dream up this creature (which personally I think is awsome by the way). Also Chinese ink on paper, and tissue paper. 18 by 20? I think.

I am currently trying to work on this series. I am attempting to depict the stages of transition for FTM, but simplified. The last one is ment to be a post-op chest or Male chest, I have not decided what of those two yet.Charcoal/pastel +oil. on NO idea what size canvases (their at the studio).

Very graphic depiction of what I refer to as ” misconceptions of Sexual reassignment surgery”.That’s pritty much all it is, to me, but I guess it could be about feminism as well.Acrylic on 18x 18 inch canvas, with collage.

Last one for tonight- Remember. This was done last year in October in remembrance of those who died. All of the subjects are trans or went outside of gender roles in some way or form, subjected to hate crimes. Remember Our Dead was my refrence for this series of portraits done in acrylic. 20- 4×4 inch canvases. I am deciding still if I should do more or not. I think my goal would be to do a whole wall of them.

Anyhow I hope those of you who check out my blog enjoyed that. I’m off to do laundry, (yey) and make tea. Hope your night is well.